Synopsis: So Young, So Innocent, So Deadly.

We have met the enemies and they are our children. Well, perhaps not our children, and that’s the problem: they are the offspring of aliens who secretly impregnated human women!

That’s the riveting premise of Village of the Damned, a science-fiction classic rife with paranoia and set in England’s tiny Midwich. There, the glow-eyed humanoids develop at an alarming rate and use astonishing powers of mind to assert their supremacy. Woe to parents or anyone who defies them. Yet one intrepid soul (George Sanders) does.
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Village of the Damned (1960) 8.0

Maybe it’s because the remake was so poor, and my expectations were consequently low, but I felt that the original was rather good. The ending is abrupt, but otherwise, it’s pretty solid.

What could have been a hoaky late’50s, early ’60s sci-fi horror film is actually a pretty gripping piece – and I already knew the story (due to the remake). Well recommended as a “blind buy” for a few inoffensive chills.